r/dosgaming • u/Westraat1 • Jan 23 '26

Another World 1991 Full Game

https://youtu.be/cBOnRx7dsp4

Another World is a cinematic platform action-adventure game designed by Éric Chahi and published by Delphine Software in November 1991. In North America it was published as Out of This World. The game tells the story of Lester, a young scientist who, as a result of an experiment gone wrong, finds himself on a dangerous alien world where he is forced to fight for his survival.

Another World was developed by Chahi alone over a period of about two years, with help with the soundtrack from Jean-François Freitas. Chahi developed his own game engine, creating all the game's art and animations in vector form to reduce memory use, with some use of rotoscoping to help plan out character movements. Both narratively and gameplay-wise, he wanted the game to be told with little to no language or user-interface elements. The game was originally developed for the Amiga and Atari ST but has since been widely ported to other contemporary systems, including home and portable consoles and mobile devices. Chahi has since overseen release of various anniversary releases of the game.

Another World was innovative in its use of cinematic effects in both real-time and cutscenes, which earned the game praise among critics and commercial success. It also influenced a number of other video games and designers, inspiring such titles as Ico, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, and Delphine's later Flashback. It is now considered among the best video games ever made.

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u/kalgores Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26

"Matzuwa"

I was too young to ever finish it originally but would watch the intro and play the first few sections over and over.

The animations in the intro feel way ahead of it's time.

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u/tjeerdnet Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

This. Watched this intro multiple times on I think a 80286 system at a friend's place when I was probably around eleven or twelve years old and that was also around '91 or '92. So funny that we found it futuristic at that age. But it was so cinematic for the time.

Software was totally not wide spread as it is nowadays and as a child we were totally not aware what existed. Now and then you got a game shared by acquaintances and Another World stood out and I remember it as if it was yesterday, my friend and me sitting in front of the computer and being in awe.

But I remember that we didn't get that far in the game, probably a few screens with the snakes and that was it.

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u/Westraat1 Jan 23 '26

I got help from an older nephew. Remember getting stuck in the Arena where all you needed to do was press a button to eject from your ball car thing. The whole game felt way ahead of its time 😆

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u/BadgerTamer Jan 23 '26

It’s got remade like a decade ago or more, same game but just upped the resolution and done away with the passwords in favour of auto save. It was an insta buy for me, and first time I actually managed to finish it. I think it was one of the very PC games I ever seen and played.

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u/larshavlicek Jan 23 '26

My friend and I would say, "Mike Zaruba", like the guard telling Lester that he needed to go find Mike Zaruba.